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Show DRANK BLOOD OF HIS ' VICTIM AS SACRIFICE By International News Service. NEW YORK, Sept. 14. The Rev. Father Fa-ther Evers, chaplain of the Tombs prison, pris-on, gave a representative of the International Inter-national News Sorvice tonight the following fol-lowing interview with the Rev. Hans Schmidt: Trembling from head to foot. Schmidt was taken from cell No. 135 to the counsel room, where the following conversation con-versation took place: Q. Where wero you ordained? A. In Mainz, Germany, Q. When was that? A. In 1906. Q. How long did you labor In the diocese? A. About a year. Q. Why did you leave that diocese? A. Because Bishop Klersteln did not like me. Q. How was that? A. I cannot answer. Q Whore did you go then? A. To Munich. That was in 1307. Q. "Why did you go thcro particularly? particu-larly? A. Ob. T Just went there. Q. Did you exercise your priestly functions there? A. No, I was arrested. Q. For what and by whom? Bishop Had Him Arrested. A. Bishop Klorstein had me arrested because he said that I was not a priest. Q. But I thought you said Bishop Klersteln ordained you? A. He did. but I was ordained a week before that by St. Elizabeth, the patron saint of Hungary. Q. How long did you remain In prison? A- I cannot recall. Q. Where did you go when you left prison? A. I came to America. Q. Where did you go in America? A- Some German homo in tills city. 1 do not know where It was. Q. What then? A. I left and went to Louisville, Ky. Q. Were you acting as a pricat then? A . Yes. Q. Where did you get your dimlsso-rlal dimlsso-rlal letters? A. St. Elizabeth gave thorn to me. Q. Don't you know sho has boon dead 100 years? A. She gave mc the letters. Favored by St. Elizabeth. Q, Well, when you were at St. Joseph's, Jo-seph's, Ono Hundred and Twonty-flfth street and Morningside avenue, you had a lot of lettors and seals. Where did you get these? A. St. Elizabeth gave them to me. Q. On leaving Louisville, whero did you go? A. I came to Tronton. I hail letters from the bishop of Louisville and now letters from St. Elizabeth when I came from Trenton. Q. Where did you mako your gymnasium gymna-sium (college)? A. I made my philosophy in a seminary semi-nary In Gonna ny. Q. Why did you leave Trenton? A. Because I was sent away by the bishop. Q. Whore did you then go? A. I came to St. Boniface's hero in Forty-ninth street and Second avenue, and was undor Father Braun. I remained re-mained there about n year and then Fa-I Fa-I ther Braun got rid of mc. Q. What then? Made Assistant. Priest. A. I met Father Huntmann of St. Joseph's Jo-seph's church at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street and Morningside avenue. ave-nue. TJo saw mc without a homo and took pity on mc and, after asking tho vicar general, he put mo Into his place as an assistant prlesL Q. Why or how did you happen to kill Anna Aumullor? A, St. Elizabeth told mc one night that a sacrifice must, be consummated and that it bad to be done In blood Just the same as Abraham was ordered to slay Isaac. Q. Well, after killing her. what did you do and why did you throw tho body Into tlie water? A. I drank her blood because blood was the sacrifice and I threw hor Into the water becauso tho sacrifice called for blood and water. |